PILLARS OF GOLD

Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 1

PILLARS OF GOLD

A £’>'o,ol.lo FAIRYLAND. Miss Sarah Cordelia. Mellon, niece of the United States Secretary of the Treasury, who ranks as one of the world’s richest men, was married in Pittsburg, United States, in a setting which established a new record in that country (says the ‘Daily Mail’). According to the published rhapsodical descriptions of the reception it outshone in magnificence any similar event in the annals of European royalty. After a simple church ceremony, the young couple and more than 1,000 guests assembled in a ■ pavilion specially erected at a cost of £20,000 on the estate of the bride’s father, Mr Richard B. Mellon.

The centre of the pavilion was occupied by a vast ballroom, from the high arched windows of which those present were able to gaze on a fairyland of tropical gardens brilliantly lit by an artificial moon.

The ceiling of the ballroom was a lofty dome, supported on curved pillars of gold, each pillar bearing a great light, while from panels flared great electric candles, with bulbs simulating flames. Outside in the fairyland myriads of lights were so arranged that clouds appeared to drift across the sky from time to time. The value of the wedding gifts is estimated at £IOO,OOO. The bridegroom is Mr Alan Magee Scaife, a. member of an extremely wealthy Pittsburg family.